Frank Douglas Quigley
1928-1996
Frank
Douglas Quigley was born on June 5, 1928 in Maysville, Kentucky.
He received his A.B. degree from Harvard University in Mathematics in 1949
and his Ph.D. from University of Chicago in Mathematics in 1953,
under the direction of Andre Weil, one of the most famous mathematiicians
of our time. After teaching at Yale University from 1953t-1959, he
then joined the faculty of Tulane University in 1959-64 as Associate Professor
and was promoted to Professor in 1964. He served as Chairman
of the Department of Mathematics from 1972-73. He was a member of
the American Mathematical Association, the Mathematical Association of
America and Sigma Xi. He authored a book entitled, A Manual of
Axiomatic Set Theory, 1971. He was awarded vaious grants
from the National Science Foundation and was renown for his broad
mathematical expertise and for his erudition which extended well beyond
mathematics. His major research areas of interest were in algebraic
field theory, uniform algebra and several complex variables.
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